BBC reporter Jane Hughes is retracing the steps of the 1953 British Everest expedition on it’s 50th anniversary, and posting daily to the BBC News Online as they go.
This caught my eye:
“In the steep main street, there’s a 24-hour cyber café, and though the region’s too remote for newspapers, an enterprising shopkeeper has pinned up pages of news from the BBC News Online website to keep people up to date.”
Cool.
Petafloptimism 
This is very common in remote places.
When we were in the maldives last year, the hotel printed out pages from BBC News Online daily and kept them in a folder, instead of leaving newspapers lying around (newspapers being both expensive to ship to small islands and hopelessly out of date once they arrive).
The neat thing would be for BBC News Online to offer a ‘front page’ printer-friendly version of the site, that could be printed out, free, by anyone and pinned up or distributed.
It would have been great to have a print version of BBC News Online – say, a 6-page brochure – left outside our hotel room every morning.
Chris.
The International Herald Tribune offers a PDF of ‘Todays Frontpage’.
http://www.iht.com/pdf/ihtfrontpage.pdf